Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.
Germany’s centre-Right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party and the centre-Left Social Democrats (SPD), which are holding coalition talks, have proposed a law that will block people with multiple extremism convictions from standing in elections.
As much as I’m a fan of keeping Nazis out of government, holy fuck is this a bad idea!
A judge shouldn’t be able to ban anyone from running for office.
This is what Russia does. Ban you from running if you’re convicted of “extremism”, then define that to include opposing the government.
Disappointing that this isn’t the overwhelming response; and shows how dangerously close to fascism a lot of the supposedly ‘anti fascist’ respondents actually are. As soon as you ban a thing you need to be able to define what it is. ‘Far right’ is not an easy definition, with Right/Left are poor descriptors of often complex political stances, at the best of times. Descriptions that can be easily bent to match any set of beliefs you want to target. Clearly a dangerous path. Those beying for it need to take a pause and think, it’s like they’ve forgotten what nuance is.